Matthew trained at the Royal Northern College of Music and is currently based in London. He works as a soloist, chorister and session singer.
Matthew has sung as a chorister for a number of highly acclaimed opera companies including Opera Holland Park,, Opera Rara,, Grange Park Opera, Buxton Festival & Northern Ireland Opera.
Recent recordings with Opera Rara include Offenbach's 'La Princesse de Trebizonde' (Paul Daniel), Leoncavallo's 'Zingari' (Carlo Rizzi), Puccini's 'Le Villi' & Donizetti's 'Il Paria' (Sir Mark Elder). In early 2020, he recorded Christopher Tin's recent album 'To Shiver the Sky' with the Royal Opera House chorus.
Performed roles have included Vegliardo (Isabeau) & 2nd Drinker (Margot la Rouge) for Opera Holland Park, Un Bourgeois (Fortunio) with Grange Park Opera & Schaunard (La Boheme) with Opera Up Close whose award winning production went on to win the Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production in 2011.
Other roles have included Fanshaw/Raimbaud (Count Ory) & Don Inigo Gomez (L'heure espagnole) with Opera Alegria for London's Grimeborn Opera Festival, Frank (Die Fledermaus) with Fulham Opera, Hobson (Peter Grimes) with the Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra, Gerald (La belle de la Bete) at Tete a Tete Opera Festival & Baron (La Traviata) with Merry Opera, whose production toured to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in collaboration with Petaling Jaya Arts.
Opera chorus credits at Opera Holland Park include Le Villi, HMS Pinafore, L'amico Fritz, The Cunning little Vixen, Iolanta, L'aresiana, Isabeau, Zaza and Kat'a Kabanova, Iris, La Boheme and The Queen of Spades. Elsewhere in the UK, he has performed 'The Rakes Progress' (conducted by Barbara Hannigan) at the Aldeburgh Festival, Turandot with Northern Ireland Opera, as well as Peter Grimes, Queen of Spades, Fortunio, Madama Butterfly, Idomeneo, Tristan und Isolde, The Love for Three Oranges and Tosca for Grange Park Opera where he was awarded the Grange Park Opera young artist scholarship.
Matthew has also had extensive experience singing with a number of the UK's leading vocal consorts including the Yorkshire Bach Choir, Blossom Street Singers, The Halle Choir and the Philharmonia Chorus. He has performed at numerous venues including the Barbican, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Cadogan Hall, St John's Smith Square & Welsh Millennium Centre. He regularly performs with Barbershop-O-Gram & Pitch Perfect Voices who perform across the UK and have made appearances on television and radio.
Alongside performing, Matthew leads a busy schedule of peripatetic teaching of singing and piano across London. He currently teaches at Chigwell School, Lister Community School, Sebright Primary School & St. Stephen's School Shepherd's Bush (Pelican Music).
In addition to his teaching work he also conducts the Camberwell Community Choir and is assistant director of the St Giles Church Choir Camberwell in South London.
Matthew has sung as a chorister for a number of highly acclaimed opera companies including Opera Holland Park,, Opera Rara,, Grange Park Opera, Buxton Festival & Northern Ireland Opera.
Recent recordings with Opera Rara include Offenbach's 'La Princesse de Trebizonde' (Paul Daniel), Leoncavallo's 'Zingari' (Carlo Rizzi), Puccini's 'Le Villi' & Donizetti's 'Il Paria' (Sir Mark Elder). In early 2020, he recorded Christopher Tin's recent album 'To Shiver the Sky' with the Royal Opera House chorus.
Performed roles have included Vegliardo (Isabeau) & 2nd Drinker (Margot la Rouge) for Opera Holland Park, Un Bourgeois (Fortunio) with Grange Park Opera & Schaunard (La Boheme) with Opera Up Close whose award winning production went on to win the Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production in 2011.
Other roles have included Fanshaw/Raimbaud (Count Ory) & Don Inigo Gomez (L'heure espagnole) with Opera Alegria for London's Grimeborn Opera Festival, Frank (Die Fledermaus) with Fulham Opera, Hobson (Peter Grimes) with the Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra, Gerald (La belle de la Bete) at Tete a Tete Opera Festival & Baron (La Traviata) with Merry Opera, whose production toured to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in collaboration with Petaling Jaya Arts.
Opera chorus credits at Opera Holland Park include Le Villi, HMS Pinafore, L'amico Fritz, The Cunning little Vixen, Iolanta, L'aresiana, Isabeau, Zaza and Kat'a Kabanova, Iris, La Boheme and The Queen of Spades. Elsewhere in the UK, he has performed 'The Rakes Progress' (conducted by Barbara Hannigan) at the Aldeburgh Festival, Turandot with Northern Ireland Opera, as well as Peter Grimes, Queen of Spades, Fortunio, Madama Butterfly, Idomeneo, Tristan und Isolde, The Love for Three Oranges and Tosca for Grange Park Opera where he was awarded the Grange Park Opera young artist scholarship.
Matthew has also had extensive experience singing with a number of the UK's leading vocal consorts including the Yorkshire Bach Choir, Blossom Street Singers, The Halle Choir and the Philharmonia Chorus. He has performed at numerous venues including the Barbican, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Cadogan Hall, St John's Smith Square & Welsh Millennium Centre. He regularly performs with Barbershop-O-Gram & Pitch Perfect Voices who perform across the UK and have made appearances on television and radio.
Alongside performing, Matthew leads a busy schedule of peripatetic teaching of singing and piano across London. He currently teaches at Chigwell School, Lister Community School, Sebright Primary School & St. Stephen's School Shepherd's Bush (Pelican Music).
In addition to his teaching work he also conducts the Camberwell Community Choir and is assistant director of the St Giles Church Choir Camberwell in South London.